Seagate's 24TB External HDD USB storage drive drops to $279 ahead of Memorial Day sales — that's $11.60 per Terabyte
#hdds
'World's First' encrypted 26TB hard disk debuts with diskAshur DT3 and DT2 models
Buffalo celebrates 50yr anniversary with a limited edition 'skeleton' transparent hard disk
Get y'er $112 5TB drives before the tariffs fuck everything up!
Doing some physical #destruction of old #laptop #HDDs today and came across this gem from Lenovo.
Not only is it laughable that this wasn't an M.2 format drive, but they used 5-pointed screw heads instead of regular torx or even Phillips.
The weird stuff you find...
I remember the delightful aroma of fresh floppy discs and the satisfying crunch of HDDs as you booted up your computer. It was like stepping into another world with each turn on.
Aka, I miss being a kid, even though it was tough back then, and my brain is playing tricks on me.
#Nostalgia #FloppyDiscs #HDDs #ChildhoodMemories #AnotherWorld
To anyone out there using #lvm and #zfs with #HDDs and a #HBA adapter, be careful of poweroffs. #LVM monitor will scan all attached #HDDs and the system might switch off without issuing sleep commands, causing emergency needle withdrawal because of powerloss. Make sure to exclude your #zfs drives from #lvm, export the pool, and hdparm -y / -Y the drives before poweroff!
Western Digital Home Page Explorer on December 5, 2024!!
#homepageexplorer #WesternDigital #GamingStorage #SSDs #HDDs #CloudSolutions #PCUpgrades #datacenters #Sustainability #HolidayDeals #TechDeals #DigitalStorage
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@alterelefant @Heidi again: Of you need to cram Petabytes of Data into a single bank vault box as #offline #backup and expect to handle the tape.maybe once a year, it's fine.
I just think that longterm, both #Tape and #HDDs eill be superseded by #Flash and I'm confident that with the massive enfattening of #Games ideas like the #NeoFloppy / #StiffyDiskDrive will gain demand.
CEX extending their warranty to 5 years on all purchases,
Apparently backdated for anything you've bought in the last 2 years too
I guess that makes used #hdds from CEX a much better now ?
https://uk.webuy.com/blog-detail?article=tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1918688228918285001.post-3035645349333060703 #CeX
@RadioAzureus my core problem with these is that they use a very scarce resource (#Helium) that should've been used for more critical applications...
So there seem to be 28TB #HDDs available already.. And here I was surprised that I could pick up a 24TB disk after thinking 22TB was the largest you could buy.
I know that there's those SMR 32TB drives as well but I want to stick with CMR for the new #NAS.
Now having 3 of them means I can setup my new #unraid parity (at 2 disks) and have a single data disk for the pool. Also being that I'm using 28TB disks I should have close to a 220TB raw pool once I'm done adding all 10 disks.
I also picked up 2 4TB NVMe drives for the cache pool that I'll run in mirrored mode, so the new server should have a decent amount of throughput. I'll stick in the 10Gbe ethernet adapter I saved from my old Threadripper system but that means I might need another switch in the office that provides 10Gbe RJ45 😅
Strange things happend in my homelab - as always in IT 😏 .
Intel NUC with an *additional* 2,5" HDD (yes, 5400 RPM Harddisk, not an SSD). Had like 20 Docker Container running on it.
A couple of weeks ago I started see some wired things happening at one of the Docker Images (just one! Grafana, Graylog... everything works fine). A Nextcloud Instance failed. Some Files just broke?! Like I mean .php Files that suddenly had garbage in them. At least, the Nextcloud Image brings original Files (/usr/src/nextcloud) with them, so I could copy the working ones over the broken ones. Problem fixed. For now at least.
A week later. Same thing. Fixing the error (some other files with garbage in them). Done.
Couple of days later: Some problem again. WTF?
I tried to investigate and be sure it's not some sort of an cyber attack. But spending hours of forensics, there wasn't any artifacts of an attack.
Then I thought it might be a bug in Nextcloud. Because I found a coincidence: Every time watchtower was updating Nextcloud, it failed with creating garbage files (randomly). But no one else had any problem, so I investigated further.
After a couple of hours I made a quick S.M.A.R.T. check (although I don't entirely trust it). Nothing. Then an fsck. Some errors were found and fixed. Puh!
So I thought, that's it: After a Power Failure a couple of weeks ago, I had issues with the Filesystem. fsck fixed it. And could move on.
But, of course... this wasn't the end. With the upcoming Nextcloud updated, it failed again.
I ran the old checks again: but fsck couldn't find any errors. But I had still broken php files - just inside the Nextcloud Container.
Because the problem smelled fishy, I forced a long S.M.A.R.T. check and..... it got interrupted because of a couple of errors.
The End of the story: I'm switching to a new Drive which (probably?) fixes the problem.
The point of the Story:
1. Some things are easier than they seem. It was just a plain old hardware failure. No sophisticated cyberattack, nor an critical nextcloud bug.
2. Look at an error from different point of views. Even fsck and S.M.A.R.T. (smartctl) could point you to the wrong direction.
For the ones who like to see how to temporary fix the nextcloud issue, nextcloud community helped me: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/strange-error-class-oca-themingcontroller-does-not-exist/196455/12
#harddrive #harddrives #hdd #hdds #ssd #ssds #storage #nextcloud #failure #SmartMonitor
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all #HDDs, are dying
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/
Seriously, apparently #Scammers are targeting #HDDs and literally selling fake #Toshiba drives on #Amazon, because OFC that site doesn't check #SupplyChains and allows #Scammers to do just that...
https://yoitibe.com/watch?v=DeUNC7z5MM0
tar --create --multi-volume --file=/dev/sdx --label=mybackupset-$(date +%F-%HH%MM) --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/tmp --exclude=/sys --exclude=/proc --exclude=.steam --exclude=.cache --exclude=/run --exclude=tmp/ / # tar #backup anything to multiple (empty) #USB attached #HDDs. tar will prompt you for the next #drive if needed. #linux ftw #reuse of old small #hdd ❤️
@DeltaWye I already heard #jokes saying #PhysicalMedia will return in the form of portable #HDDs but my response is more like: "I'd rather expect said games to come out on #NeoFloppy aka. a standardized #SSD package...
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